[ad_1] Math, even in an engineering-based sport such as NASCAR, is apparently hard. When most of the competitors in any NASCAR series talk about The Chase and the new format, it often includes some version of winning is important. Yeah, of course. A win earns a driver 55 points. Second is worth 35 points. If a driver sweeps both stages and wins and earns the point for the fastest lap,
[ad_1] Layne Riggs has won twice the number of races than any of his Chase competitors but now must rally in order to win the 2026 truck championship. Riggs, with six wins this season, sits second in the standings at 37 points behind Kaden Honeycutt. Honeycutt earned his third win of the year a couple of weeks ago at Kansas Speedway. The other Chase drivers have combined for three wins
[ad_1] Kasey Kahne didn’t like the way his full-time NASCAR career ended. So he hopes he can finish it off with something that makes him smile — nine years after his last full-time season. The 46-year-old Kahne will compete full time in NASCAR’s truck series in 2027, as he drives the No. 77 for Spire Motorsports. Kahne’s last full-time NASCAR season came to an abrupt end in September 2018 when
[ad_1] Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Las Vegas) — Denny Hamlin, an avid golfer, used a golf analogy to explain his 2026 championship hopes midway through The Chase. "You’ve just got to play the ball from where it lies," Hamlin told me and other reporters after a disappointing 16th-place finish at Las Vegas. "And where it lies is we’ve got a little gap we’ve got to make up. "So we’ve got
[ad_1] Joey Logano could make me (and others) eat their words about whether he could win a championship this year. From eating words to Ryan Blaney eating some knuckles, it was a wild time at Bristol. And after three races, it seriously is time to wonder whether Denny Hamlin can recapture his mojo with the three-race intermediate-track swing that starts this weekend at Kansas Speedway. Here are my contender rankings
[ad_1] Kansas Speedway (Kansas City, Kan.) — After Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar traded fisticuffs last week at Bristol Motor Speedway, fans cheered Hocevar ... ... as he stood by his car ... ... as he did interviews ... ... as he left the track. Hocevar ate it up, and it is fair to say the majority of the crowd ate it up, too. Which brings to mind: How can
[ad_1] The Chase drives on as the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Sin City for the South Point 400. The race gets the green flag on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 5:30 p.m. ET. The favorite, Kyle Larson, has found a new gear recently and it has earned him two wins this postseason. Will the dice roll in Larson's favor in Las Vegas this weekend or will Denny Hamlin, who's right
[ad_1] The announcement Tuesday that Brad Keselowski will no longer drive for his own team in 2027 — and quite possibly won’t own the team — is a sign of two things. The first is that Keselowski, as has been his MO, isn’t afraid of a fight when it comes to sticking to what he feels important. The second is that the more owners that are at the table, the
[ad_1] Brad Keselowski won’t return as a driver at the team he currently co-owns — a team that he potentially won't co-own in the future. Keselowski’s contract negotiations with the RFK Racing board — a somewhat expected formality considering his ownership stake — broke down and RFK Racing announced that it would part ways with Keselowski after this season. The 2012 Cup champion joined the team in 2022 when he
[ad_1] The only thing that is clear when talking about championship contenders is that Kyle Larson is firm as No. 1 with two victories in the first four races of The Chase. Larson’s victory and max points at Kansas on Sunday created a big gap between him and most of the field. There are only three drivers within one race worth of points (76). So not even all drivers in the
